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Oregonians' are proud of their "measures" that supposedly puts control directly in the voters hands.
Did we really get what we voted for?
In the 1990s we moved to Oregon partially on the premise that property taxes were going to increase slowly due to measures 5 & 50.
No!
Did we really get what we voted for?
In the 1990s we moved to Oregon partially on the premise that property taxes were going to increase slowly due to measures 5 & 50.
No!
Your core property tax rate is growing slowly, but Measures were used to unbundle what property tax used to pay for.
Now most everyone votes YES! I want higher property taxes when they approve the latest measure be it for:
Fire
Police
Schools
Parks
You name it
Now most everyone votes YES! I want higher property taxes when they approve the latest measure be it for:
Fire
Police
Schools
Parks
You name it
We pay more today than we ever would have under the old model. Where the county would have had to make the hard decisions on how to spend the funds raised thru property taxes.
TVF&R for example used the sockets bet to buy themselves brand new fire stations everywhere!
Fancy!!
TVF&R for example used the sockets bet to buy themselves brand new fire stations everywhere!
Fancy!!
Your partner won't always make your life easier.
But, they shouldn't make every day harder.
Stop romanticizing relationship struggle:
But, they shouldn't make every day harder.
Stop romanticizing relationship struggle:
Relationship struggle is glorified in our culture.
We've been conditioned to believe we have to work, chase, or earn love.
It's in movies and songs, and it creates the idea that love is a painful competition.
We've been conditioned to believe we have to work, chase, or earn love.
It's in movies and songs, and it creates the idea that love is a painful competition.
One person is pushing or trying harder, while the other person is the "runner."
This cycle is addictive. It keeps our nervous system in a hyper vigilant state.
We chase the idea of who someone could be, rather than seeing who they actually are.
This cycle is addictive. It keeps our nervous system in a hyper vigilant state.
We chase the idea of who someone could be, rather than seeing who they actually are.
20 Years of NIFG - The Top 20s!
Day 2: Top Goalscorers in European Club Competitions
Goals by full Northern Ireland internationals in the UEFA Champions Cup/League, Cup Winners' Cup, Fairs/UEFA Cup/Europa League, Conference League, Super Cup & Intertoto Cup
#NornIron #GAWA
Day 2: Top Goalscorers in European Club Competitions
Goals by full Northern Ireland internationals in the UEFA Champions Cup/League, Cup Winners' Cup, Fairs/UEFA Cup/Europa League, Conference League, Super Cup & Intertoto Cup
#NornIron #GAWA
20. Michael Gault
1 #NornIron cap (2008)
3 European goals
Linfield, Ballymena United
1 #NornIron cap (2008)
3 European goals
Linfield, Ballymena United
19. Jim Cleary
5 #NornIron caps (1982-1984)
3 European goals
Portadown, Glentoran
5 #NornIron caps (1982-1984)
3 European goals
Portadown, Glentoran
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1/ We are currently drafting a long form response to the Conversion Practices Bill spanning criminal, general civil, human rights and equality law in addition to statistical analysis in the hope of producing a comprehensive document useful in Parliament.
2/ Our position is simple. The real and and painful history of gay male conversion and the "corrective rape" and abuse of lesbians should never be exploited and misused to stop parents looking after confused children or stopping free speech and basic freedoms.
3/ We consider it an irony that iconic gay men like Alan Turing faced gay conversion therapy and yet similar drugs he was forced to take are now prescribed to the 80-90% of same sex attracted children at the Tavistock or sold by unscrupulous private providers.
There are two things we fear more than anything.
A heart attack. The phone call your family gets. No warning. No goodbye. Gone.
And cancer. The slow fight. The suffering your family watches. The treatments that sometimes feel worse than the disease.
I survived the first one. It changed everything about how I understand health. And when I started studying the root causes of heart disease, something shocked me.
The same science kept pointing at cancer.
A heart attack. The phone call your family gets. No warning. No goodbye. Gone.
And cancer. The slow fight. The suffering your family watches. The treatments that sometimes feel worse than the disease.
I survived the first one. It changed everything about how I understand health. And when I started studying the root causes of heart disease, something shocked me.
The same science kept pointing at cancer.
What do we actually know about cancer?
We know more than most people think. And most of it connects back to the same metabolic dysfunction your doctor is not testing for.
This is not alternative medicine. This is published, peer-reviewed science from Nature, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and a Nobel Prize.
Your doctor is not hiding it. They were just never taught it.
We know more than most people think. And most of it connects back to the same metabolic dysfunction your doctor is not testing for.
This is not alternative medicine. This is published, peer-reviewed science from Nature, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and a Nobel Prize.
Your doctor is not hiding it. They were just never taught it.
This is what cancer cells look like under fluorescence microscopy.
In 1924, a scientist named Otto Warburg made a discovery that would win him the Nobel Prize.
He found that cancer cells eat sugar differently than normal cells. Normal cells use oxygen to burn glucose efficiently. Cancer cells ferment glucose. Like yeast. Even when oxygen is available.
This is called the Warburg Effect. It has been confirmed thousands of times over 100 years.
It is why PET scans work. They inject you with radioactive glucose. Then they look for the cells consuming the most sugar. Those are the cancer cells.
Think about that. They USE glucose to find cancer. But nobody tells you to manage your glucose.
Image credit: Min Yu, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
In 1924, a scientist named Otto Warburg made a discovery that would win him the Nobel Prize.
He found that cancer cells eat sugar differently than normal cells. Normal cells use oxygen to burn glucose efficiently. Cancer cells ferment glucose. Like yeast. Even when oxygen is available.
This is called the Warburg Effect. It has been confirmed thousands of times over 100 years.
It is why PET scans work. They inject you with radioactive glucose. Then they look for the cells consuming the most sugar. Those are the cancer cells.
Think about that. They USE glucose to find cancer. But nobody tells you to manage your glucose.
Image credit: Min Yu, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
🧵I've been in Europe for 2 months (Poland, Estonia, France, next Hungary, Belgium, Germany). I'd like to share a few observations before @NATO summit in Ankara. BLUF: Most of Euro policy elites don't understand current US politics--and often refuse to understand their own. 1/11
Americans are divided on issues like inflation, immigration, trade, or foreign policy, splitting into contentious factions which are generally misidentified by Euro elites as America's left and right. The key problem: Europe's intelligentsia doesn't know the US heartland. 2/11
Each day #EU elites grow more defensive, rallying around their favorite projects (net-zero, migration, multiculturalism, etc.). Beneath lies a deeper problem: with few notable exceptions (Finland), citizens across Europe believe that their leaders feel unaccountable to them. 3/11
Your three peasants in 1500 is a genuinely elegant framing.
It is also doing something very specific that needs to be named.
It begins the story at a point before European colonialism restructured the global economy.
Which means it can then present the divergence that followed as something that emerged from within European society: from English ingenuity, from Protestant work ethic, from whatever cultural or institutional qualities you might want to attribute it to.
But here is what was happening to the Indian peasant between 1500 and 1750 while the Englishman was "pulling ahead":
The British East India Company was in the process of capturing the most sophisticated textile manufacturing economy in the world.
In 1750, India produced approximately 25% of global GDP.
Its textile industry was so advanced that British manufacturers lobbied Parliament to pass laws banning the import of Indian cloth because they could not compete with it.
Parliament passed those laws.
Then it went further.
It systematically deindustrialized India to turn it into a raw material supplier and a captive market for British manufactured goods.
The Indian peasant did not "fall behind" because the Englishman innovated faster.
The Indian peasant "fell behind" because the British Empire dismantled the industry above his head, extracted the surplus, and wrote the story afterward as a tale of two different levels of ingenuity.
Your starting point of 1500 is not neutral.
It is the last moment before the mechanism of divergence was switched on.
It is also doing something very specific that needs to be named.
It begins the story at a point before European colonialism restructured the global economy.
Which means it can then present the divergence that followed as something that emerged from within European society: from English ingenuity, from Protestant work ethic, from whatever cultural or institutional qualities you might want to attribute it to.
But here is what was happening to the Indian peasant between 1500 and 1750 while the Englishman was "pulling ahead":
The British East India Company was in the process of capturing the most sophisticated textile manufacturing economy in the world.
In 1750, India produced approximately 25% of global GDP.
Its textile industry was so advanced that British manufacturers lobbied Parliament to pass laws banning the import of Indian cloth because they could not compete with it.
Parliament passed those laws.
Then it went further.
It systematically deindustrialized India to turn it into a raw material supplier and a captive market for British manufactured goods.
The Indian peasant did not "fall behind" because the Englishman innovated faster.
The Indian peasant "fell behind" because the British Empire dismantled the industry above his head, extracted the surplus, and wrote the story afterward as a tale of two different levels of ingenuity.
Your starting point of 1500 is not neutral.
It is the last moment before the mechanism of divergence was switched on.
I want to say something about the 1500 starting point one more time, because it is the foundation of everything else you've built.
In 1500, the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán had a population of approximately 200,000 to 300,000 people, larger than any city in Europe at the time.
It had running water, causeways, floating gardens, a sophisticated administrative system, and markets that the Spanish conquistadors described in letters home with undisguised awe.
In 1500, the Mali Empire controlled the gold trade of West Africa and had produced Mansa Musa, whose pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 was so extravagantly wealthy that his spending single-handedly caused inflation across the Mediterranean economy for a decade.
In 1500, China had the world's largest economy, had invented printing, paper money, gunpowder, and the compass, and had conducted naval expeditions to East Africa half a century before Europeans reached the Americas.
In 1500, the Indian subcontinent produced approximately 24% of global GDP.
Your three peasants in 1500 are not equivalently positioned at the starting line of some neutral competition that the Englishman happened to win.
The Englishman won it in the way that a competitor wins when he is allowed to change the rules, redraw the course, and arrest the other runners when they get too far ahead.
The race metaphor doesn't work.
But if you insist on it
The Englishman did not run faster.
He was the one who built the track.
In 1500, the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán had a population of approximately 200,000 to 300,000 people, larger than any city in Europe at the time.
It had running water, causeways, floating gardens, a sophisticated administrative system, and markets that the Spanish conquistadors described in letters home with undisguised awe.
In 1500, the Mali Empire controlled the gold trade of West Africa and had produced Mansa Musa, whose pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 was so extravagantly wealthy that his spending single-handedly caused inflation across the Mediterranean economy for a decade.
In 1500, China had the world's largest economy, had invented printing, paper money, gunpowder, and the compass, and had conducted naval expeditions to East Africa half a century before Europeans reached the Americas.
In 1500, the Indian subcontinent produced approximately 24% of global GDP.
Your three peasants in 1500 are not equivalently positioned at the starting line of some neutral competition that the Englishman happened to win.
The Englishman won it in the way that a competitor wins when he is allowed to change the rules, redraw the course, and arrest the other runners when they get too far ahead.
The race metaphor doesn't work.
But if you insist on it
The Englishman did not run faster.
He was the one who built the track.
Let's follow your Englishman from 1750 and be specific about the mechanism.
The British cotton textile industry, which drove the early Industrial Revolution, was built on two colonial foundations simultaneously.
On one end: slave-produced cotton from the American South, purchased at prices made possible by the fact that the labor cost was zero because the laborers were legally property.
On the other end: the deindustrialized Indian subcontinent, which had been forced, through tariffs, trade policy, and outright coercion, to stop producing its own textiles and instead buy British ones.
The Englishman's mill required enslaved American labor to produce the raw material cheaply and a captive Indian market to absorb the finished product profitably.
Without either of those colonial arrangements, the economic miracle of the early Industrial Revolution does not happen in the way, at the speed, or at the scale that it did.
This is not an ideological claim.
This is the supply chain.
So when you show me the Englishman in 1750 living better than the Indian peasant, and you say the trend was "accelerating," you are technically correct.
You are just declining to describe what was accelerating it.
And that omission is the entire argument.
The British cotton textile industry, which drove the early Industrial Revolution, was built on two colonial foundations simultaneously.
On one end: slave-produced cotton from the American South, purchased at prices made possible by the fact that the labor cost was zero because the laborers were legally property.
On the other end: the deindustrialized Indian subcontinent, which had been forced, through tariffs, trade policy, and outright coercion, to stop producing its own textiles and instead buy British ones.
The Englishman's mill required enslaved American labor to produce the raw material cheaply and a captive Indian market to absorb the finished product profitably.
Without either of those colonial arrangements, the economic miracle of the early Industrial Revolution does not happen in the way, at the speed, or at the scale that it did.
This is not an ideological claim.
This is the supply chain.
So when you show me the Englishman in 1750 living better than the Indian peasant, and you say the trend was "accelerating," you are technically correct.
You are just declining to describe what was accelerating it.
And that omission is the entire argument.
1/6 🧵The word "sad" has been completely eliminated from our lexicon.
In its place: disorders, diagnoses, chemical imbalances, and treatment protocols.
In its place: disorders, diagnoses, chemical imbalances, and treatment protocols.
2/6 In 1990, roughly 2% of Americans identified as depressed. Today that number is 17.8%.
Is the purported 250% surge in clinical depression genuine, or is there a darker and more insidious force at play?
Is the purported 250% surge in clinical depression genuine, or is there a darker and more insidious force at play?
3/6 Historically, the perception of clinical depression as a chronic and severe condition necessitating medical intervention was uncommon. It wasn't considered a public health concern.
This trend continued until the mass marketing of antidepressants to the general population.
This trend continued until the mass marketing of antidepressants to the general population.
There’s no textbook on post-AGI political economy. But there are recorded talks from the 2nd post-AGI workshop!
All are now online at
A 🧵 of new highlights:post-agi.org/talks/
All are now online at
A 🧵 of new highlights:post-agi.org/talks/
First, @richardmcngo‘s “favorite talk he’s ever given”: on mechanisms that emergently incentivize the deliberate destruction of value:
Kellogg: Putin just wants power. The Soviets left Afghanistan after losing 18,000 soldiers. Putin has lost 1.2 to 1.4 million.
Americans would never accept that. But he keeps going because he thinks he can occupy all of Ukraine. He is not winning.
1/
Americans would never accept that. But he keeps going because he thinks he can occupy all of Ukraine. He is not winning.
1/
Kellogg: Europe’s security will no longer be built only around Germany, France, and the UK.
It will shift east — through Finland, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, and Romania. Ukraine will be the Sparta of Europe, with an army of 800,000. Nobody else has that.
2/
It will shift east — through Finland, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, and Romania. Ukraine will be the Sparta of Europe, with an army of 800,000. Nobody else has that.
2/
Kellogg: Putin is on the losing end. If he does not watch out, he may end up like Nicholas II, the last tsar.
Someone will get to him, and I think he is worried about that.
3/
Someone will get to him, and I think he is worried about that.
3/
